Madelyn

A girls’ name of Hebrew/Greek origin, meaning of Magdala; tower.

Babies a year
3,944
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#71
down from #65
UK popularity
#778
47 babies

How Madelyn has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#50#65#80201520202025#71

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#59
2016#62
2017#63
2018#72
2019#72
2020#66
2021#71
2022#60
2023#58
2024#65
2025#71

Madelyn by the numbers

In 2025, 47 babies in England and Wales were named Madelyn. In the US, 3,944 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 4,563 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.

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Madelyn as a share of American babies born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Names that come from Madelyn

Forms of Madelyn in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • Maddynof Madoc; a form of Madelyn65 in the US (2017)
  • Madysynmaiden of Magdala; modern spelling of Madelyn16 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Madelyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Madilynof Magdala; tower; a modern respelling of Madelyn946 in the US (2017)
  • Madelynnwoman of Magdala; a form of Magdalene685 in the US (2017)
  • Madalynwoman from magdala; a form of Magdalene448 in the US (2017)
  • Madelynewoman from magdala; a form of Madeline70 in the US (2017)
  • Maddelynmade of magdala; a respelling of Madeline43 in the US (2017)
  • Madelinwoman from magdala; variant of madeline42 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Madelyn

Names that are said the same way as Madelyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Madelinefrom Magdala; a form of Magdalene2,938 in the US (2017)
  • Madeleineof Magdala; woman of Magdala179 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Madalynnof magdala; a modern respelling of Madeline330 in the US (2017)
  • Maddilynyouthful; a modern respelling of Madeline84 in the US (2017)
  • Maddilynnwoman from Magdala; a modern respelling of Madelynn or Magdalene54 in the US (2017)
  • Maddalynfrom magdala, of the tower; variant of magdalen or madeline45 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Madelyn

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